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Pheasant on the roof

BY: @lloyddavis | CREATED: Nov. 17, 2025, 4:30 p.m. | VOTES: 28 | PAYOUT: $5.93 | [ VOTE ]

This feels like it could be a metaphor for something, but I'm not quite sure what.

We live close enough to the country for this to not be totally surprising, but we're also still townie/city people at heart so we make it remarkable.

I suppose it reminds me of the Pelican on a bicycle benchmark for LLM-created images. An LLM that created an image with a chimney looking like that and a TV aerial as well might score highly but the overall composition is far from anything that a machine would currently make. I mean why would you put the pheasant behind the aerial.

I've just noticed also that there's a pigeon sitting on the aerial. I wonder if the pheasant noticed too?

TAGS: [ #photography ] [ #images ] [ #england ] [ #life ] [ #birds ]

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@steevc | Nov. 17, 2025, 5:54 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Don't go plucking that pheasant! We see some around here, but then we are close to fields.

Hope things are good with you.

@lloyddavis | Nov. 18, 2025, 3:24 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

I am not a pheasant plucker... etc :D

Things here are good thanks, first frost of the season makes it feel quite Christmassy today.

@steevc | Nov. 18, 2025, 3:39 p.m. | Votes: 1 | [ VOTE ]

Definitely feeling a little crispy, but not seen a frost here yet.

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